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Kevin Jianjun Tu was a senior associate in the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, where he led Carnegie’s work on China’s energy and climate policies. He is also a nonresident research fellow at the Canadian Industrial Energy End-Use Data and Analysis Centre.

Prior to joining Carnegie, Tu served as senior energy and environmental consultant from 2004 to 2011 for M. K. Jaccard and Associates, a premier energy and climate consulting firm in Vancouver. Before he moved from China to Canada in 2001, he was the director of marine operations at Sino-Benny LPG, China’s largest liquefied petroleum gas importer and distributor. From 1995 to 1997, he worked first as technical supervisor and then project manager for Sinopec, a Chinese national petroleum company.

Tu is an experienced policy adviser and project manager who specializes in operations strategy and policy analysis of coal, oil, gas, and power sectors as well as in sustainable resource and environmental management. He has extensive connections with China’s energy industry, government, academia, and environmental NGOs.

From 2007 to 2009, he was entrusted by the Canada School of Public Service to advise the Central Party School in Beijing on the environment and sustainable development. In 2009, he was appointed by the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) as the lead consultant of the CCICED Task Force on Sustainable Use of Coal in China.

He authored a report entitled “Industrial Organization of the Chinese Coal Industry” for the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University.

While many export applications await approval to ship U.S. gas abroad, Washington should prioritize exporting the technology and expertise needed to responsibly replicate American shale success in other parts of the world.

Domestic politics have stifled how the United States and China handle energy investment from one another. As the dynamics of the U.S. and Chinese energy sectors change, new opportunities for cooperation will arise.

To successfully meet China's goals of capping coal production and consumption, Beijing must pursue reforms in how energy data is reported. Statistical reporting should be done independent of local government officials to insure more accurate results.

Chinese coal emissions are a major contributor to climate change. Although the Chinese government has pledged to cap coal production and consumption by 2015, more effective policies are needed to reduce the use of coal in the country.

Chinese National Oil Companies, while owned by the government, increasingly base investment decisions on market signals rather than state orders. Their efforts to access oil and gas resources are helping to meet the challenge of high petroleum consumption levels.

China and the United States account for more than half of the world's coal production and consumption and so have a crucial role to play in putting global energy consumption on a more sustainable path.

Lighter cars, more efficient electricity use, and better integrated smart grids can all help to dramatically reduce global reliance on fossil fuels and demand nothing in the way of intervention on new regulation.

With François Hollande's recent election as president of France, the ideological change in leadership comes at a critical time for both France and the EU, and will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the EU and its relations with China.

Mao Yushi, economist and founder of the Unirule Institute for Economics, discussed China’s economic development, the consequences of China’s increasing demand for energy and reliance on coal, and Sino-U.S. relations.